Lower production costs. Faster time-to-market. Increased quality. Customers achieve all of these goals and more through Solectron's industry-leading product launch services.

Our new product introduction (NPI) process customizes all the necessary skills and techniques needed to prepare products for volume. To our customers, it's the linchpin of the process that allows Solectron to provide the fastest time-to-market, time-to-volume and time-to-cost. The NPI process ensures that a product seamlessly flows from one phase to the next, and offers a suite of advanced technology services designed to collaborate with customers from the design concept to prototyping and right up to the volume manufacturing stage.

Through our prototyping services, we help our customers outrun their competition. By leveraging our global network of NPI and production sites, we can provide prototypes in as little as 48 hours (depending on the size and scope of the project). We also combine functionality and manufacturability validation efforts during the prototyping process to shorten the product development cycle, reduce the number of engineering changes and ultimately shorten time-to-market. And we continually modify our prototyping technology processes to prepare for product evolution and emerging market segments.

Solectron's information technology resources also provide the flexibility our customers require. We are able to immediately and seamlessly integrate our customers' product data files into our design and manufacturing systems and equipment. This allows us to quickly ramp up at any stage of the product launch process to ensure that time-to-market and time-to-volume needs are met.